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Utilities are publicly owned for a good reason. Your bill would otherwise shoot up sky high the very moment your provider became a monopoly, and utilities are natural monopolies.
Many of our collective bills would go down if we pushed for more public ownership of natural monopolies and let go of the failed conservative dogma that beneficial competition is what happens when there are no rules. Comcast is what happens when there are no rules and natural monopolies are allowed to be privatized.
Did he turn traitor before or after leaving the agency? It looks pretty bad - like he was trying to overthrow the government and install a Russian asset as dictator. I wonder if he also sold state secrets to America’s enemies?